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title: Ngl, who stopped Jack's wife coming out to meet him? — English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Cast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, who stopped Jack's wife coming out to meet him? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

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Ngl, who stopped Jack's wife coming out to meet him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** stop, come out, meet · **To what, where:** wife, Ngl

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1956-pg7439-part15/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t5:1
# text = Ngl, who stopped Jack's wife coming out to meet him?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | Ngl | Jack's wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come out** | gerund | Ngl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Ngl *not said here* | Ngl |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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her dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t5:o1:1
# text = her dad
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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her old nurse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t5:o2:1
# text = her old nurse
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the King

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t5:o3:1
# text = the King
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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her parents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t5:o4:1
# text = her parents
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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